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Can anyone tell me if Steuben always sign their "snail" bowls please? I have what I think could possibly be one, except that it is unsigned and it is in a smokey brown colour.It could of course be a 'copy'. So if not Steuben, then any ideas who made similar bowls? Will post pics. later.TIA

I think this is a most likely a reproduction. After further searches the walls look to be thinner on mine and the snail handle doesn't appear to extend downwards as much as the Steuben ones.Its still a very lovely well made bowl who ever made it though.

As far as I know Steuben only made crystal for the last 20+ years unless it was a Steuben import after they were sold a few years ago and before they closed. Schottenstein's owned them for a few years and did some different sort of things during that time trying to keep it afloat.

Many thanks folks I've checked out the link given , and there is in fact a "smoke olive dish" on page 41 of their catalogue, described as "Colourless and transparent smokey grey glass; blown, hot worked, applied. Transparent smokey grey dish with one applied colourless scroll handle. Design 9674". This has an engraved base.I initially thought mine was smoke brown, but it is grey. The handle on mine is smoke grey unlike the Steuben catalogue one, which if I read it correctly, is clear, and the dimensions are different too.